CIRCUMSTANCES OF LOSSPrivate Pollock’s 4th Platoon of M/3/2 landed on Gavutu, British Solomon Islands, at 1025 on 8 August, 1942. This platoon, attached to K/3/2, participated in mopping up operations in the vicinity of Hill 148.
At 1330, as 3/2 relieved a unit of Paramarines atop the hill, they were mistakenly attacked by an American SBD pilot. The bomb struck K Company positions on the northwest nose of the hill, wounding nine and obliterating Privates Pollock, William James, and Merlyn Thompson.
The three privates were listed as Missing In Action, and declared dead on 9 August 1943.

INDIVIDUAL DECORATIONSPurple Heart

LAST KNOWN RANKPrivate

STATUS OF REMAINS
“Missing as result of aerial bomb his position.
Body not recovered.”